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At least 1,400 soldiers have received unfair sanctions, including dismissal
and missed promotion, because the Army spent several years wrongly
disciplining anyone who received a police caution.

Minutes and briefing notes from two Army Justice Board meetings show that the
Adjutant-General, the Army’s most senior personnel officer, knew as early as
2011 of the problem, which is related to changes in the law on
rehabilitating offenders.

It is unclear, however, whether those affected by the mistake have been
informed that potentially career-ending penalties should not have been
enforced against them. One senior army officer told The Times that
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